Kidney Matters - Issue 15 Winter 2021
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease. This issue includes features on learning to accept and embrace changes to your body, celebrating black kidney donors throughout Black History Month, fluid management, diabetes after transplantation, and an article all about how a young working mother of two children coped with her CKD diagnosis. As well as this, the Kidney Kitchen features a delicious, low potassium Christmas pudding! We know that being a kidney patient can be tough at times and that accessing the right help at the right time isn’t always easy. We’ve spent a great deal of time over the past year talking to kidney patients on dialysis, asking them what we can do to address this. The response was overwhelmingly ‘improved communication’ on what is going on in the kidney world and what is available to them in terms of support and how to access it. Kidney Matters has been developed to tackle this as well as the many other issues kidney patients face in day-to-day life. Along with shared patient experiences, Kidney Matters provides information on how to access emotional and practical support, financial assistance through our grant schemes, advice from leading kidney specialists and tips on how to keep as well as possible by eating a healthy diet whilst on dialysis.
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease.
This issue includes features on learning to accept and embrace changes to your body, celebrating black kidney donors throughout Black History Month, fluid management, diabetes after transplantation, and an article all about how a young working mother of two children coped with her CKD diagnosis.
As well as this, the Kidney Kitchen features a delicious, low potassium Christmas pudding!
We know that being a kidney patient can be tough at times and that accessing the right help at the right time isn’t always easy. We’ve spent a great deal of time over the past year talking to kidney patients on dialysis, asking them what we can do to address this. The response was overwhelmingly ‘improved communication’ on what is going on in the kidney world and what is available to them in terms of support and how to access it.
Kidney Matters has been developed to tackle this as well as the many other issues kidney patients face in day-to-day life. Along with shared patient experiences, Kidney Matters provides information on how to access emotional and practical support, financial assistance through our grant schemes, advice from leading kidney specialists and tips on how to keep as well as possible by eating a healthy diet whilst on dialysis.
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Our team of
Kidney Warriors
smashed it at
this year’s Virgin
Money London
Marathon.
Following 18 months without a London
Marathon, it was great to cheer on the
team and see so many smiling faces
along the way. Thank you for raising
so much awareness as well as over
£50,000 to help kidney patients and
their families.
Inspired by our team of
#KidneyWarriors? You can apply
for a place at the 2022 TCS London
Marathon by visiting:
www.kidneycareuk.org/LM2022
A big thank you to
Our 2021 Great North
Run team who raised
over £10,000!
Carys, Nicole, Isla and
the Northern Ireland
Classic Scrambles
Club who raised a
whopping £11k for
Kidney Care UK at
their Classic Motor-X
event
Lorraine, Nicola,
Stuart, Darren and
the rest of the family
and friends for their
kind donation in
memory of Lorraine’s
husband, James.
The Tin Snails’ 2CV
club who raised
£400 through an
array of collections,
bake sales and a
summer raffle
Get in touch
w: www.kidneycareuk.org/get-involved
t: 01420 541 424
e: fundraising@kidneycareuk.org
Barry and Marie
who asked for
donations in lieu
of gifts as they
celebrated their
golden wedding
anniversary and
raised £670
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